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JANUARY. 

1. — Mason and Slidell sailed for England, '62. Emancipation proclamation 
took effect ; Galveston captured by Magruder, '63. Sloop of war San Jacinto 
lost oft' Florida, '65. 

2. — Gov. Ellis of North Carolina seized government property, '61. Battle of 
Stone River or Murfreesboro' ended, '63. 

3. — Florida state convention, '61. Slight action at Moorefield, Va., '63. Ac- 
tion at Jonesville, Va., '64. 

4. — National fast day by presidential proclamation, not observed in the 
South, '61. Bragg abandoned Murfreesboro', '63. 

5. — Confederate fort captured on Little River, N.C., '63. End at Vicksburg 
of Grierson's raid, '64. 

6. — Kirby Smith put in command of confederate troops west of the Missis- 
sippi River, '64. 

7. — Alabama and Mississippi conventions, '61. Battle of Blue Gap, Va., 
'62. 1,600 Indians attacked Julesburg, Col., '65. 

8. — Secretary Thompson, of the Interior department, resigned, '61. Action 
at Springfield, Mo., '63. Loyal mass meeting in New Orleans to form free state 
i>overnment, '64. Gen. B. F. Butler removed from command of the army of the 
James, '65. 

9. — Mississippi seceded, 84 to 15 ; Star of the West fired upon at Charleston, 
'61. 20,000 men exchanged, '63. Confederate government conscripted every man 
in Cleveland, Tenn., '64. 

10. — Florida seceded, 62 to 7, 'Gl. Battle of Middle Creek, Ky. ; Senators 
Johnson and Polk expelled from the United States senate, '62. Cavalry fight at 
Strawberry Plain, '64. 

11, — Alabama seceded, 61 to 39; Secretary Thomas, of the Treasury, re- 
signed ; the governor of Louisiana seized government property ; New York 
pledged its whole support to the national government, '61. Battle at Fort Hind- 
man, Ark., '63. Longstreet, with 46,000 men, fortified at Bull's Gap, Tenn.; 
meeting in New York to aid people in Savannah; F. P. Blair, sr., arrived in 
Richmond on a peace mission, '64. 

12, — Confederate raid on Holly Springs, Miss., '63. Gen. Marston raided 
successfully in Virginia, '64. 

13. — Pensacola navy yard surrendered by Com. Armstrong, '61. Simon 
Cameron resigned as secretary of war, and Edwin M. Stanton was appointed, "62. 
Second attack on Fort Fisher, '65. 

14. — Gunboat Queen of the West captured in the Red River by the confed- 
erates; battle of Bayou Teche, La., '63. 

15. — Mound City, Ark., burned to clear out guerillas, '63. Fort Fisher 
captured, '65. 

16. — The Crittenden compromise defeated by Clark's substitute that tlie 
constitution was gooil enough, and that secession ought to be put down, '61. 
Pirate Oreto escaped from Mobile, '63, Magazine exploded at Fort Fisher, '64. 



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r. p. Blair, sr., returned to Washington; Forts Caswell and Campbell, N.C., 
evacuated and blown up by the confederates, '65. 

17. — Pollockville, N.C., taken, '63. Action near Bainbridge, Tenn., '64. 
Monitor Patapscosunk off Charleston by confederate torpedo, '65. 

18. — The Massachusetts legislature pledged its whole support to the govern- 
raent; Virginia appropriated $1,000,000 for defence, '61. Two blockade run- 
ners captured by Admiral Porter, '65. 

19. — Georgia seceded, 208 to 89, A. H. Stephens and Herschel V. Johnson 
voting no, '61. Battle of Mills Springs, Ivy., Zollicoffer, confederate com- 
mander, killed, '62. 

20. — Gen. Woodbury's expedition (Union) to Ponta Rosa, '64. F. P. 
Blair, sr., went to Richmond the second time, '65. 

21. — Alabama congressmen resigned; Jefferson Davis left the senate, '61. 
Fitz John Porter dismissed from the service, '63. 

22. — Burnside failed to cross the Rappahannock, '63. 

23, — Georgia congressmen resigned, '61. Stone fleet sunk in Charleston 
harbor, '62. Successful Union raids in Virginia and North Carolina, '64. 

24. — Augusta arsenal seized by the state, '61. Battle of Woodbury, Tenn., '63. 
Gen. Rhoddy, confederate, driven across the Tennessee with loss of trains and 
supplies, '64. Holiday in Louisiana to celebrate the abolition of slavery in 
Louisiana, Maryland, Tennessee, and Missouri, '65. 

25. — Organization of the first colored volunteers at Port Royal, '63. Maj. 
Burroughs, guerilla, shot while escaping from Fortress Monroe, '64. Savannah 
meeting to thank New York ; Gen. Lee issued a call to arms, '65. 

26. — Louisiana seceded, 113 to 17, '61. Hooker succeeded Burnside in com- 
mand of the Potomac army, '63. Debate in the confederate house on enlisting 
negroes, '65. 

27. — Bombardment of Fort McAllister, Ga., '63. Union cavalry victory at 
Sevierville, '64. Blair returned from second peace mission ; confederates fired 
Savannah, Ga. ,'65. 

28. — Texas convention, '61. Large meeting at Nashville, Tenn., to restore 
state government, '64. Confederate house passed bill for employment of ne- 
groes, '65. 

29. — Gen. Banks promulgated emancipation proclamation at New Orleans, 
'63. Confederate attack on Cumberland Gap defeated, '64. 

30. — Floj'd indicted for malfeasance and conspiracy, '61. Union supply 
train captured near Petersburg, Va., '64. A. H. Stephens, Gen. R. M. T. Hunter, 
and Judge Campbell came within Grant's lines as peace commissioners, '65. 

31. — Three ironclads attacked Charleston blockaders, one sunk; attack on 
United States troops in Indiana arresting deserters, '63. Lee made general-in- 
chief of the confederate armies ; thirteenth amendment adopted, '65. 



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FEBRUARY. 

1. — New Orleans mint ami custom-house seized; secession of Texas sub- 
mitted to popular vote, 166 to 7, '61. Second attack on Fort McAllister, Ga., 
'63. Battle of Cumberland Iron "Works, Tenn. ; Lincoln ordered draft of 500,000 
men on March 10, '64. Secretary Seward left Washington to meet confederate 
peace commissioners at Fortress Monroe, '65. 

2. — Queen of the West ran the Vicksburg blockade, '63. Gen. Scammon and 
staff captured by confederates on the steamship Levi, '64. Lincoln met confed- 
erate peace commissioners at Fortress Monroe ; gold at 4400 premium at Kich- 
moncl, '65. 

3. — The steamer Nashville ordered out of Southampton (Eng.) harbor; Sen- 
ator Bright of Indiana expelled from the United States senate, '62. Confeder- 
ate attack on Donelson defeated, '63. Sherman, with 25,000 men, crossed the 
Big Black and reached Bolton, '64. 

4. — Delegates at Montgomery, Ala., to form a confederate government, '61. 
Governor-general of Canada signed the bill to prevent confederate raids across 
the border, '65. 

5. — Skirmish on Bear Creek, Mo., '63. Expedition left Port Royal, '64. 
Battle of Hatcher's Run, "Va., '65. 

6. — Fort Henry captured by Grant and Foote, '62. Col. Cushman (confeder- 
ate cotton-burner) captured near Ripley, Tenn., '63. Army of the Potomac 
reconnoitred in force toward Orange Court-House ; Sherman moved south from 
Vicksburg, '64. Battle of fifth corps and Gregg's cavalry with confederates 
(Union victory), '65. 

7. — Montgomery convention adopted provisional constitution, '61. Battle of 
Roanoke Island, '62. 

8. — United States arsenal at Little Rock surrendered, '61. Confederate 
meeting at Dalton and Decatur, '64. Electoral votes counted in congress, — 212 
for Lincoln and Johnson, and 21 for McClellan and Pendleton, '65. 

9. — Jefferson Davis and A. H. Stephens elected provisional president and 
vice-president of the confederacy, '61. Gen. Rosecrans ordered the summary 
execution of confederates in Union uniform, '63. Action at Morgan's Mill, 
Ark., '64. 

10. —Fight at Old River, La., '63. Col. Streight and 110 other Union offi- 
cers escaped from Libby prison by tunnelling, '64. Sherman's right column, ni 
part, landed on James Island, near Charleston, '65. 

11. — Gens. Grierson and Smith began raid through Mississippi, '64. Gen. 
Terry reconnoitred in force toward AVilmington, '65. 

12. — The gunboat Indianola ran the Vicksburg batteries, '63. 

13. — Lincoln and Hamlin officially declared elected, '61. 

14. — Union cavalry surprised at Anandale, Va. ; Queen of the West lost. 
'63. Sherman occupied Meridian, Miss., and destroyed the state arsenal and 
much property, '64. 

15. — Cavalry engagement near Gainesville, Tenn., '63. 



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16. — Fort Donelson taken with Gens. Buckner and Tilghman, '62. 

17. — Confederates captured a forage train near Romney, Va., '63. Sherman 
occupied Columbia, S.C., and confederates evacuated Charleston, '65. 

18. — Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Richmond, '61. Mortar boats opened 
fire on Vicksburg; copperhead state convention at Frankfort, Ky., dispersed, '63. 
Charleston occupied by Union troops, '65. 

19. — Confederate congress met at Richmond ; confederates seized Fort 
Keane, Kan., '61. Hopefield (opposite Memphis) burned by Gen. Hurlbut's 
order, '63. Fort Anderson, N.C., captured by Schofield and Porter, '65. 

20. — Gunboat reconnoissance up the Rappahannock, '63. Battle of Olustee, 
Fla. ; Gen. Seymour's expedition (Union) badly defeated at Sanderson, Fla., 
and Smith's expedition repulsed, '64. Gen. Cox defeated the confederates near 
Wilmington, N.C. ; confederate house passed bill to arm negroes, '65. 

21. — Jefferson Davis appointed his cabinet, '61. Battle of Valverde, N. 
Mex., '62. Confederates evacuated Wilmington, N.C, '65. 

22, — Michael Hahn elected governor of Louisiana, '64. Union troops oc- 
cupied Wilmington, N.C, '65. 

23. — Confederates evacuated Nashville, '62. Forrest's attack on Smith re- 
pulsed, '64. Georgetown and Fort White, S.C, occupied by Union troops, '65. 

24. — The Indianola captured near Grand Gulf, Miss., by four confederate 
iiteamers, '63. Burning of Columbia, S.C, '65. 

25. — Cavalry fight near Hartwood church, Va., '63. (Feb. 25 to 27) battle 
of Buzzard's Roost, Ga., '64. Johnston took command as Beauregard's succes- 
sor, '65. 

26. — Cherokee national council repealed secession ordinance and abolished 
idavery, '63. Grierson and Smith returned to Memphis after a successful expe- 
dition, '64. 

27. — The peace congress submitted a plan to the senate, '61. Sherman 
returned to Vicksburg after a 22 days' raid, '64. 

28. — Confederate ironclad Nashville was captured in Ogeechee River, '63. 
Col. Richardson, guerilla, was captured near the Cumberland River; Kilpatrick 
(itarted on a raid in Virginia, '64. 

29. — Kilpatrick's raid continued, Stevensburg to Richmond, extended to 
March 4, '04. 



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MARCH. 

1. — Fight near Bradyville, Tenn. ; Duke's guerillas routed, '63. Confed- 
erate salt-works at St. Marks, Fla., destroyed, '64. 

2. — Gen. F. W. Lander died; action at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., '62. 
Sheridan captured nearly all of Early's force near Staunton, Va., '65. 

3. — Sheridan defeated Van Dorn at Shelbyville, 63. Fort McAllister, Ga., 
again bombarded fruitlesslj', '68. Grant made commander-in-chief over Hal- 
leck, '64. Skirmish between Sherman's and Wade Hampton's cavalry, '65. 

4. — Lincoln inaiigurated, '01. Battle of Memphis Station, Tenn.; battle of 
Thompson's Station, Tenn., '63. Col. Dahlgren murdered, '64. Lincoln inaugu- 
rated, '65. 

5. — Beauregard took command of the army of the Mississippi; battle of 
Pea Ridge, Ark., from March 5 to 8, '62. Battle in Yazoo City, '64. 

C. — Gen. Hunter ordered negroes drafted in the South, '63. Sherman's army 
crossed the Pearl River at Jackson, '64. Successful Union expedition up the 
Rappahannock, '65. 

7. — Return of successful Union scouting expedition from Belle Plain, Va., 
'63. Sherman's cavalry occupied Brandon, '64. 

8. — The Congress and the Cumberland sunk by the Confederate ram Merri- 
mac, '62. Mosby captured Gen. Stoughton, '63. Confederate senate passed 
negro enlistment bill, '65. 

9. — Engagement of Monitor and Merrimac, '62. Slight action below Port 
Hudson, '63. Sherman at Hillsboro' ; Grant commissioned lieut.-gen., '64. 

10. — Jacksonville, Fla., captured by the first South Carolina colored regi- 
ment, '63. Red River expedition embarked at Vicksburg, '64. Action at Wil- 
cox's Bridge, N.C. ; defeat of confederate Gen. Bragg at Kinston, N.C. ; 
Grant forbade trade at points within confederate lines in Virginia, North Caro- 
lina, South Carolina, and Georgia, '65. 

11. — McClellan removed, Halleck assigned to the department of the Missis- 
sippi, and Fremont to mountain department, '62. Hoke's confederate division 
defeated at Kinston, N.C, '65. 

12. — Successful Union reconnoissance from Franklin, Tenn., '63. Grant 
appointed commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States, '64. Schofield 
occupied Kinston, '65. 

13. — Battle of New Madrid, Mo., '62. Fort Greenwood on the Tallahatchie, 
Tenn., silenced by gun-boats, '63. Indianola evacuated by Union troops, '64. 
Sheridan destroyed the railroad between Richmond and Hanover, '65. 

14. — Battle of Newbern, N.C, '62. Admiral Farragut, with seven vessels, 
passed Port Hudson after a fierce engagement, '63. Fort De Russy captured ; 
call for 200.000 men for three years, '64. 

15. — The JefPersonian office at Richmond, Ind., destroyed by soldiers, '63. 
The confederate house, 36 to 32, suspended the habeas corpus act, '65. 

16. — Union victory at Cumberland Mountain, '62. Union victory near Fort 



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Pillow, '64. Arkansas voted herself a free state, 'G4. Union victory at Averys- 
borough, N.C., 'Go. 

17. — Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry defeated at Kelly's Ford, Va., 'G3. Fort T)e 
Russy blown up, 'G4. Gen. Canby moved against Mobile, 'Go. 

18. — The Nashville escaped from Beaufort, S.C. ; battle at Salem, Ark., 
'62. Confederate congress adjourned, '65. 

19, — Steamer Georgiana, with arms for the confederates, destroyed off 
Charleston, '63. Confederate attack on Port Royal failed, '64. Union vic- 
tory at Bentonville, N.C., '65. 

20. — Battle of Vaught's Hill, near Milton, Tenn., '63. 

21. — Fight at Cottage Grove, Tenn., '63. Confederate raid on Magnolia, 
'64. Junction of armies under Sherman, Terry, and Sciiofield; Wilson's cav- 
alry defeated Roddy's cavalry at Marion and Plantersville ; Goldsboro', N.C., 
taken by Union troops, '65. 

22. — Mount Sterling, Ky., captured by guerillas, '63. Ferguson's guerillas 
massacred 24 Union cavalrymen at Johnson's Mills, Tenn., '64. 

23. — Battle of "Winchester, Va., '62. Action at Calf Killer Creek, Tenn., 
'64. 

24. — Pontachoula, La. , taken by Union troops, '63. Union City, Mo., at- 
tacked by Forrest, '64. 

25. — Rams Lancaster and Switzerland lost in running Vicksburg batteries, 
'63. Owen Lovejoy died, aged 53, '64. Battle of Fort Steadman (before Peters- 
burg), '65. 

26. — Action at Apaclie Caiion, 2Gth to 28th, '62. Burnside took command 
of the department of the Ohio, '63. Forrest sacked Paducah, Ky. ; Col. Clayton's 
victory at Longview, Ark., '()4. 

27. — Fast day in the confederacy, '63. Investment of Spanish Fort, tlie 
principal defence of Mobile, '65. 

28. — Louisiana popular vote on secession, 20,448 yes, to 17,296 no, '6L 
Union victory at Cane River, '64. Attack on the defences of Mobile, '65. 

29. — Blockade runners captured at Poplar Creek, Md., '63. Confederate 
ram Stonewall ordered to leave Lisbon ; United States war steamer Niagara 
fired upon by Portuguese autliorities ; action at Quaker Rood, Va., '65. 

30. — Mississippi convention ratified the confederate constitution, 78 to 7, '61 . 
Battle near Somerset, Ky., Union victory, '63. Copperhead riot at Charleston 
and Mattoon, 111., '64. Fighting before Richmond, '65. 

31. — Gen. Heron api)ointed to the command of the army of the frontier, '63. 
Union victory at Crump's Hill, '64. Confederate victory before Richmond, '65. 



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APRIL 

1. — Farragut passotl the Graml (Jiilf l)atteries with the Hartford, Switzer- 
land, and All)atr()ss, "(;;{. Confederate ram Tennessee sunk near Grant's Pass, 
'(J4. Union victory at Five Forks, '(i5. 

2. — Women's bread riot at Riehmond, Va., 'fi3. Action at Spoonville, Ark. ; 
Forrest defeated Grierson near Sumnierville, '(54. Grant advanced on Peters- 
hnrg; lieavy fifrliting; Richmond and Petersburg evacuated by night; Jef- 
ferson Davis left at 8 P.M. ; capture of Selma, Ala., '65. 

3. — South Carolina convention ratified the confederate constitutien, 114 to 
16, '61. Arrest of Knights of the Golden Circle in Reading, Pa., '63. Action 
at Okalona, Ark. ; Petersburg occupied by Union troops at 4 A.M., and Rich- 
mond at 7 A.M., '65. 

4. — Virginia convention refused, 80 to 45, to submit the secession ordinance 
to the people, '(il. Shivery al)olished in tiie District of Columbia, '62. New 
York metropolitan sanitary fair opened; Sheridan made cavalry commander 
of Potomac army, '64. Lincoln in Ricimiond, '65. 

5. — Troops sent from Newbern to rescue Gen. Foster, '6;!. Action at 
Roseville, Ark.; confederate Gen. W. P. White assassinated by his own men, 
'64. Jefferson Davis proclaimed the evacuation of Richmond, and tiuit they 
would never abandon one state of the confederacy, '65. 

G. — Battle of Pittsburg Landing; Gen. A. S. Johnston killed, '62. Confed- 
erate Gen. Buford attacked Fort llalleck, Columbus, Ky., '64. Battle of 
Dcatonsville between Grant and Lee, '65. 

7. — Communication with Fort Sumter cut off, '61. Island No. 10 sur- 
rendered, '62. Duitoiit's bombardment of Sumter failed, '63. Action at Wil- 
son's Farm, La. ; fight with Lee at Farmvillc, '65. 

8. — State department refused to recognize confederate commissioners, '61. 
Gen. Stoneman defeated at the battle of Pleasant Grove, La. ; Gen. Franklin, of 
Banks's expedition, defeated at Maiisticdd, La., '64. Lee concentrated his army 
at Appomattox Coui't-IIouse, Va. ; battle of Ap])omatto.\ (.Sth-i)th), '65. 

J). — Pascagonla, Miss., taken l)y Union troojjs and abandoned, '63. Lee sur- 
rendered; Spanish Fort, near Mobile, and other forts, captured, '65. 

lO. — Fort Pulaski surrendered, '62. Battle of Franklin, Tenn., '63. Ac- 
tion at Prairie D'Aiin (10th-13th), Ark., '64. Evacuation of Mobile begun, '65. 

11. — Surrender of Sumter demanded, '61. Union troops under Gen. Q. A. 
Gillmore captured Fort Pulaski, Ga., '62. Montgomery, Ala., surrendered to 
Gen. Wilson, '65. 

12. — Beginning of the war — Sumter l)ombarded ; Pennsylvania ajjpropriated 
#500,000 to arm the state, '61. Action at Pleasant Hill Laniiing, La., '64. Cap- 
ture of Fort Pillow and nmrder of the garrison, '(J4. Mobile occupied by Union 
troops ; Stoneman defeated 3,000 confederates at Grant's Creek, '(>5. 

13. — Sumter surrendered, '61. Battle of Irish Bend, La., 12th to 14tli, '63. 
Action at Moscow, Ark., '64. Sherman occupied Raleigh, N.C., '65. 

14. —Bombardment of Fort Pillow, '62. Battle of Bayou Teche, La., '63. 
Gunboat e.\i)edition from Butler's army captured ])risoner8 and stores at Smith- 
field, Va., '64. President Lincoln sliot by J. Wilkes Booth in Ford's theatre, 
Washington, '65. 

15. — Lincoln's proclamation for 75,000 volunteers issued; extra session of 
congress called ; New York legislature voted 30,000 men and $3,000,000, '61. 



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Action at Liberty, Ark. ; gunboat Chenango exploded, '64. President Lincoln 
died at 7.22 A.M. ; Vice-President Johnson sworn in as president, '65. 

16. — Confederate government called for 32,000 troops; Govs. Magoffin of 
Kentucky, and Letcher of Virginia, refuse to furnish troops to the federal gov- 
ernment; action at Lee's Hills, Va. , '61. Admiral Porter's fleet ran the Vicks- 
burg batteries, '63. Columbus, Ga., captured, '65. 

17. — Virginia seceded, 60 to 53, the result to be submitted to the people; 
Jefferson Davis issued letters of marque ; the Massachusetts Sixth regiment 
started for Washington, '61. Col. Grierson's cavalry raid (ended May 3 at 
Baton Kouge, La.) began from Lagrange, Tenn., '63. Mosby surrendered to 
Hancock, '65. 

18. — Pennsylvania volunteers in Washington; Harper's Ferry arsenal 
burned to save it from the confederates; two men killed by the confederates, 
'61. Bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip below New Orleans, '62. 
Action at Poison Springs, Ark. ; Baltimore sanitary fair opened, '64. Truce be- 
tween Sherman and Johnston, '65. 

19, — Attack on the Massachusetts Sixth regiment in Baltimore, four men 
killed and seven wounded ; eleven of the mob killed and many wounded ; blockade 
of southern ports, '61. Battle of Camden, N.C., '62. Lincoln's funeral, '65. 

20, — Confederates seized U.S. arsenal at Liberty, Mo., '61. Fight at Pat- 
terson, Mo., '63. Gen. Wessels surrendered Plymouth, N.C., to confederates, 
'64. Macon, Ga., occupied; Gen. Howell Cobb and others captured, '65. 

21, — Norfolk navy yard destroyed; Union government took the Philadel- 
phia and Baltimore railroad, 'CI. Salt-works near Wilmington, N.C., de- 
stroyed, '64. Gen. E. Kirby Smith proclaimed that he could continue the 
rebellion; Sherman's +ruce disapproved by the authorities, '65. 

22, — Arsenals at Fayetteville, N.C., and Napoleon, Ark., seized by the con- 
federates ; Vermont legislature in extra session, '61. 

23. — First South Carolina regiment started for the Potomac, '61. New 
York metropolitan sanitary fair closed; Grant received the sword by vote of 
30,291 to 14,509 for McClellan, '64. Jefferson Davis fled to Georgia, '65. 

24. — Fort Smith, Ark., seized by confederates; Virginia proclaimed a 
member of the confederacy, '61. Union fleet passed Forts Jackson and St. 
Philip, '62. Tuscurabia, Ala., occupied by Union troops, '63. Battle at Cane 
Kiver, '64. 

25. — New Orleans evacuated by the confeilerates ; Fort Macon surrendered, 
'62. Confederate batteries at Duck River shoals in the Tennessee River silenced 
by gunboats, '63. Action at Marks' Mills, Ark., '64. 

26. — Cape Girardeau, Mo., attacked unsuccessfully by confederates under 
Marmaduke, '62. Johnston surrendered 29,900 men to Sherman; Booth was 
shot, and Harold captured, "65. 

27. — Blockade of Virginia and North Carolina ports, "61. Union flag raised 
at New Orleans, '62. Stoneman's raid in Virginia (ended May S) ; Gen. Hooker 
moved on Fredericksburg; Streight's expedition from Tuscumbia, Ala., to 
Rome, Ga. (captured by Conf. Forrest, May 3), '63. 

28. — Forts Jackson and St. Philip surrendered, '62. Hooker crossed the 
Rappahannock, '63. War department issued orders to reduce array expenses, 
'65. 

29. — ^ Indiana legislature voted $500,000 to arm the state with; first con- 
federate congress at Montgomery, Ala. ; Maryland house by 53 to 13, and the 
senate unanimously, voted against secession, '61. Battle of Fairmont, W. Va. ; 
Porter's fleet bombarded Grand Gulf, Miss., '63. Proclamation by the president 
removing restrictions on international trade, '65. 

30. — Siege of Corinth, Miss., '62. Grant's army landed near Port Gibson, 
Miss., '63. Action at Jenkin's Ferry, Ark., '64. Paroling of Johnston's troops 
at Greensboro', "65. 



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MAY. 

I. — Butler occupied New Orleans, '62. Union victory at Port Gibson; begin- 
ning of Grant's campaign against Vicksburg, '63. Commodore W. U. Porter 
died, '6-t. 

2. — The guerilla Morgan captured Union troops at Pulaski, Tenn., '62. 
May 2 to i, battle of Chancellorsville, between Hooker and Lee ; confederate 
victory, '63. Reward of $100,000 offered for capture of Jefferson Davis, 'Co. 

3. — Connecticut voted $2,000,000; Virginia militia called out; President 
Lincoln called for 42,000 three years' volunteers, '6L Battle of Farmington, 
Miss., '62. Grant's army crossed the Rapidan toward Chancellorsville and the 
Wilderness, '64. 

4. — Battle of Williamsburg, Va., '62. Siege of Suffolk, Va., raised; end of 
the battle of Chancellorsville, '63. Reconstruction bill passed, '64. Lincoln 
buried; Gen. Dick Taylor surrendered, '65. 

5. — Battle of Williamsburg, Va., '62. C. L. Vallandigham arrested, '63. 
Lee attacked Grant at the Wilderness, May 5 to 9 ; battle of Rocky Face ridge, 
Ga. ; action at Dunn's Bayou, La., '64. 

G. — Arkansas seceded, 69 to 1 ; confederate congress published the war and 
privateering act, '6L Hooker retreated across the Rappahannock, '63; battle of 
the Wilderness continued, '64. 

7. — Military league formed between Tennessee and the confederacy, '61. 
Battle of West Point, Va., '62. Kilpatrick's cavalry completed the circuit of 
Lee's army, '63. Lee attacked Grant; Butler defeated at Bermuda Hundred; 
battle of Stony Creek station, Va., '64. 

8. — Tennessee seceded, '61. Monitor and gunboats attacked Sewall's Point; 
battle of McDowell, Va., '62. Bombardment of Port Hudson, "63. Action at 
Todd's Tavern, Va. ; Grant pursued Lee to May 18 to Spottsylvania Court- 
House, '64. 

O. — Confederate congress authorized the president to accept all volunteers, 
^61. Gen. Hunter issued emancipation proclamation; Pensacola evacuated by 
the confederates, '62. Virginia battles continued — Swift Creek and Cloyd's 
mountain; Gen. Sedgwick killed; Sheridan's cavalry raul (yth-13th), '64. 

lO. — Gen. R. E. Lee put at the head of the confederate array in Virginia, 
'61. Surrender of Norfolk; Gosport navy yard burned; gunboat battle at 
Fort Pillow, '62. Stonewall Jackson died; Port Hudson batteries silenced, '63. 
Battle of Spottsylvania, '64. 

II. — Confederates destro3'ed the Merrimac, '62. Battle of Horse-shoe 
Bend, Ky., '63. Grant " proposes to fight it out on this line, if it takes all sum- 
mer ; " Butler intrenched at Bermuda Hundred, '64. Davis and Reagan captured 
at Irwinville, Ga., by Lt.-Coi. Pritchard ; Jeff Thompson surrendered, 'Go. 

12. — Natchez taken by Union troops, '62. Battle of Raymond, Miss., 
AlcPherson defeated the confederates under Gregg, '63. Action at Fort Darling, 
Va. (12th-16th); Sherman carried tlie confederate position at Dalton; Conf. 
Gen. J. E. B. Stuart killed in Va., '64. Engagement near Boco Chico, the last 
engagement of the war, '65. 

13. — Queen Victoria's proclamation of neutrality, '61. Yazoo City, I\Iiss., 
captured by gunboats, '63. Gen. McPherson captured nine trains of military 
stores, '64. Action at Palmetto Ranche, Tex., 'G5. Jefferson Davis released on 
bail, '67. 

14. — Jackson, Miss., cajJtured, '63. Battle of Drury's Bluff, "64. 



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15. — Gov. Hicks of Maryland called for volunteers, '61. Grant defeated 
Pemberton at Edwards Station, Miss., "63. Union victory at Resaca; Gen. Sigel 
defeated at Newmarket, Va., 64. 

16. — Lincoln nominated for president, '60. Bridges on the Baltimore and 
Ohio railroad destroyed, '61. Battle at Princeton, W. Va., '62. United States 
transport Oriental wrecked; Grant defeated Pemberton at Champion Hills, 
Miss., '63. Fighting (16th-30th) at Bermuda Hundred, Va., '64. 

17. — Spies arrested in Washington: confederate congress authorized 
treasury notes, '61. Confederates driven across the Chickahominy, '62. Battle 
of Big Black River, Miss., '63. South Carolina union convention at Beaufort; 
Rome, Ga., captured, '64. 

18. — Arkansas admitted to the confederacy; express packages not sent 
south of AVashington, '61. Grant besieged Vicksburg, '63. Action at Calhoun 
Station, La., '64. 

19. — Lincoln revoked Hunter's emancipation proclamation ; battle of Searcy 
Landing, Ark., '62. Blackiston's Island lighthouse destroyed by confederates, '64. 
Davis arrived at Fortress Monroe, '65. 

20. — North Carolina seceded: Gov. Magoffin proclaimed Kentucky neutral, 
61. Fighting before Vicksburg, '63. Confederates attacked Ames's division of 
Butler's army, '64. Confederate ram Stonewall surrendered to Spanish authori- 
ties in Cuba, '65. 

21. — Confederate Congress adjourned, '61. 

22. — Union troops destroyed Ship Island fortifications, '61. Grant's attack 
on Vicksburg repulsed; battle at Gum Swamp, N.C., '63. Southern ports 
opened, '65. 

23. — Part of McClellan's army crossed the Chickahominy ; battles at Front 
Royal, Lewisburg, and Mechanics ville, Va., '62. Action (23d-27th) at Nortli 
Anna River, Va., "64. 

24. — Col. Ellsworth shot at Alexandria; southern mails stopped, '61. Banks 
retreated to Winchester; battle of the Chickahominy, '62. Sheridan destroyed 
the Danville railroad near Richmond, '64. 

25. — Banks retreated to the Potomac; battle of Winchester, Va., '62. 
Union victory near Dallas, Ga., "64. 

26. — New Orleans blockaded; strong Union vote in West Virginia, '61. 
Torpedo explosion at Bachelor's Creek, N.C. ; fighting (20th-29th) at Decatur 
and Moulton, Ala. ; Louisiana state convention abolished slavery, '64. Gen. E. 
Kirby Smith and army surrendered to Gen. Canby, '65. 

27. — Gen. McDowell put in command at Washington; Mobile blockaded; 
Mississippi River blockaded, '61. Battle of Hanover Court-House, Va., '62. 
Bank's assault on Port Hudson repulsed with heavy loss, '63. Lee retreated 
toward Richmond, '64. 

28. — Savannah blockaded, '61. Confederates retreated from Corinth, Miss., 
'62. First colored regiment from the North left Boston, '63. Action at Salem 
church, Va. ; Sherman repulsed Longstreet's attack at Dallas, '64. 

29. — Jefferson Davis reached Richmond, '61. Action near Thoroughfare 
Gap, Tenn. , '63. Grant crossed the Pamunky, '64. President Johnson issued 
an amnesty proclamation, '(J5. 

30. — Union troops occupied Front Royal; battle at Booneville, Miss., "62. 
Grant begun earthworks at Vicksburg, "63. Grant repulsed Lee's attack north 
of the Chickahominy, '64. 

31. — Maj.-Gens. Banks and Freemont commissioned, '61. Battle of Seven 
Pines and Fair Oaks, Va., '62. Freemont nominated for president and Gen. 
Cochrane for vice-president, '64. Brazil withdrew belligerent rights from the 
confederates, 'Go. 



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JUNE. 

1. — Cavalry action at Fairfax Coiirt-House, '61. Battle at Seven Pines, 'G2. 
Confederate attack at Cold Harbor defeated, '04. Day of humiliation and prayer 
on account of Lincoln's death, '65. 

3, — Burnside prohibited the circulation of the New York World and Chicago 
Times in the department of the Ohio, '63. Action at Bermuda Hnndred, Va., '64. 
Kirby Smith and Magruder formally surrendered at Galveston, '65. 

3. — Action at Phillippi, W. Va. ; Border State Convention, '61. Union troops 
land on James Island, near Charleston; Lee took command of confederate 
army, 'G2. New York supreme court decided against legal-tender notes ; con- 
vention of New York peace democrats, '63. Battles of Cold Harbor and Panther 
Gap, '64. 

4. — Confederates abandoned and burned Fort Pillow, '62. Burnside's order 
regarding "World and Times revoked ; Gillmore relieved Hunter of the depart- 
ment of the South; battle of Franklin, Tenn., '63. Hampton's cavalry defeated 
at Howe's store, '64. 

5. — Raid to Warwick Kiver, Va., '63. Sherman's army fell back toward At- 
lanta; battle of Piedmont, Va., 64. 

6. — Union troops occupied Memphis ; fierce gun-boat fight ; battle of 
Harrisonburg, Va., '62. Fight at Milliken's Bend, '63. Action at Lake Chicot, 
Ark. ; night attack on Burnside repulsed, '64. 

7. — Confederate battery silenced at Chattanooga; confederate executed for 
tearing down a Union flag at New Orleans ; battle of Cross Keys, Va., '62. 
Lincoln and Johnson nominated for president and vice-president; Philadelphia 
sanitary fair opened ; Morgan's raid on Kentucky begun, '64. 

8. — Two confederate spies shot at Franklin, Tenn., '63. Sherman's advance 
on Kenesaw range ; Gillmore's raid on Richmond fortifications, '64. 

9. — Battle of Fort Republic, Va., '62. Part of Hooker's army crossed the 
Rappahanock; battle of Beverly Ford, '63; Gen. Burbridge defeated the con- 
federates at Mount Sterling. June 9 to 30, battle of Kenesaw Mountain, '64. 

10. — Confederate victory at Big Bethel, '61. Battle of James Island, S.C., 
'62. Confederate congress adjourned; battle of Brice's Cross Roads, Miss., '64. 

11. — Wheeling convention, '61. Democratic peace meeting in Brooklyn, 
'63. Sheridan's victory at Trevillian Station; action at Cynthiana, Ky., '64. 

12. — Confederate privateer Clarence captured six vessels off Chesapeake, 
'63. Grant crossed the Chickahominy, '64. 

13. — Confederate fast day, '61. Battle of Winchester, Va.. '63. Fugitive 
slave law repealed in the house of representatives, 63 to 15; battles of White 
Oak Swamp Bridge, and Charles City Cross Roads, Va., '64. All ports east of the 
Mississippi proclaimed to be open, July 1, '65. 

14. — Confederates evacuated Harper's Ferry, '61. Banks's attack on Port 
Hudson repulsed, '63. Grant crossed to the South of the James; Gen. Polk 
killed, '64. 



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15. — Lee invaded Maryland; Lincoln called for 100,000 men, '63. Battle 
of Baylor's Farm; action at Samaria church, Va., 'Gi. 

1(5. — Battle at Secessionville, S.C., '62. Confederate attack on Harper's 
Ferry defeated, '63. Attack on the Union line at Petersburg repulsed, '64. 

17. — West Virginia voted itself independent of the other part of the state ; 
Union victory at Booneville, Mo., '61. Battle at St. Charles, Ark., '62. Confederate 
ram Atlanta captured by the Weehawken; battle at Aldie, Va., '63. Confederates 
abandoned intrenchments at Bermuda Hundred; action at Lynchburg, Va., '64. 
A. H. Stephens and R. E. Lee applied for pardon, '65. 

18. — Skirmish before Richmond; Union defeat near Hernando, Miss., '62. 
Grant's attack on confederate works repulsed, '64. 

19. — Confederate cavalry raid into Harrison County, Ind., '63. The Alabama 
sunk off Cherbourg by the Kearsarge, '64. 

20. — McClellan took command in West Virginia, '61. Union troops occupied 
Holly Springs, Miss., '62. West Virginia admitted to Union; Vicksburg bom- 
barded, '63. Fitzhugh Lee and Hampton repulsed at White House, '64. 

21. — East Tennessee Union convention, '61. Battle of Battle Creek, Tenn., 
'62. Battle of La Fourche Crossing, La. ; battle of Upperville, Va., '63. Bat- 
tle of Davis's Farm, confederate victory, '64. 

22. — Skirmish at Frederick, Md., '63. House of representatives resolved 
to abolish slavery; battle on the Weldon road, '64. 

23. — Battle of Big Black River, Mo. ; battle of Brashear City, La. ; con- 
federates occupied Chambersburg ; beginning of Rosecrans's Murfreesbo-ro' 
campaign, '63. Attack on the Weldon railroad, confederate victory, '64. Presi- 
dential proclamation rescinding the blockade on all United States ports, '65. 

24. — Tennessee voted itself out of the Union, 104,019 to 47,238, '61. Mary- 
land constitutional convention abolished slavery ; confederate victory at Staunton 
Bridge, '64. 

25. — Virginia seceded by vote of 128,884 to 32,134; Iowa issued war loan 
of .$600,000, '61. Beginning of the seven days' battle before Richmond ; battle of 
Mechanicsville ; confederates destroyed their gunboats on the Mississippi ; Gen. 
Pope in command of the army of Virginia, '62. 

26. — Confederates occupied Gettysburg; death of Admiral Foote, '63. 

27. — Bombardment of Vicksburg; Fremont relieved, '62. Battles of 
Gaines's Mill and Golding's Farm, '63. McPherson's and Thomas's attack south- 
west of Kenesaw Mountain repulsed, '64. 

28. — Battle of Chickahominy, '62. Battle of Donaldsonville, La., '63. 
Meade superseded Hooker, '63. Battle of Stony Creek, '64. 

29. — Battle of Savage's Station, '62. Battle of Reams's Station and of 
Peach Orchard, '64. Close of the conspirators' trial at Washington, '65. 

30. — Battle of White Oak Swamp, '62. Johnston evacuated Kenesaw 
Mountain ; Salmon P. Chase resigned as secretary of the treasury, '64. 



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JULY. 

1. — Lincoln called for 300,000 troops; battle of Malvern Hill; Sheridan 
defeated Chalmers at Booneville, Miss., '62. Battle of Gettysburg begun ; Gen. 
Keynolds killed, '63. W. P. Fessenden accepted the secretaryship of the 
treasury, '64. 

2. — West Virginia legislature organized at Wheeling; action at Falling 
Waters, Md., '61. Battle of Gettysburg continued, '63. Confederate Gen. 
Ewell invaded the Shenandoah Valley in three columns, 'Qi. 

3. — Arkansas called out 10,000 men, '61. Battle at Elvington Heights, Va., 
'62. Union victory at Gettysburg, '63. Travel on B. & O. road stopped ; fight- 
ing (3d-5th) at Smyrna, Ga., '64. 

4. — Executive session of congress ; New Hampshire voted $1,000,000 loan, 
61. Battle of Helena, Ark. ; Vicksburg surrendered to Grant, '63. Mosby'u 
cavalry crossed the Potomac at Point of liocks, '64. 

5. — Battle at Carthage, Missouri, '61. Confederate attack on colored brigadij 
near Port Hudson defeated, '64. July 5 and 6, battle of Jackson, Miss., '64. 

6. — Battle of Grand Prairie, Ark., '62. John Morgan's confederate? 
invaded Indiana, '63. Hagerstown, Md., evacuated by Union troops; action 
(6th-10th) on the Chattahoochee River, Ga., '64. 

7. — Union victory at Bayou Cache, Ark., '62. Bragg retreated across tlie 
Tennessee River, '63. Confederate raiders held Harper's Ferrj', '64. Execution 
of Harold, Payne, Atzerodt, and Mrs. Surratt, '65. 

8. — Surrender of Port Hudson; the Mississippi River opened, '63. Gen. 
Wallace evacuated, and the confederates occupied, Frederick, '64. 

9. — Fremont put in command of the Western department, '61. Beginning of 
actions about Jackson, Miss. (9th-16th), '63. Confederate victory at Monocacy, 
Md., '64. 

10. — Gilmore landed on Morris Island and captured the forts ; assault on 
Fort Wagner, '63. Johnston retreated to the fortifications around Atlanta, '64. 

11. — Union victory at Rich Mountain, Va., '61. Halleck appointed com- 
mander-in-chief, '62. Destruction of confederate salt-works at Tampa Bay and 
stores at Dutch Gap, '64. 

12. — Morgan invaded Ohio; martial law at Cincinnati, Newport, and 
Covington, '63. Confederate raid seven miles from Washington, '64. 

13. —Battle of Carrickford, W. Va., '61. Confederates captured Mur- 
freesboro', '62. Action at Jackson, Tenn. ; draft riot in New York, '63. July 
13, 14, and 15, Forrest defeated in five battles, '64. 

14. — Battle of Fayetteville, Ark. ; Gen. Pope took command of tlie armv 
of Virginia, '62. Battle of Falling Waters, Md. ; battle of Elk River, Tenn. ; 
New York draft riot continued, '63. 

15. — Confederate gunboat Arkansas ran the Union fleet and reached 
Vicksburg, '62. Battle of Halltown, Va. ; draft riots in New York, Troy, and 
Boston, '63. 



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16. — End of New York draft riot; many rioters killed, '63. Sherman's 
army crossed the Chattahoochee, in pursuit of Johnston, '(34. 

17. — Battle of Honey Springs, Ind. Ter. ; battle of Canton, Miss. ; orders 
issued to enforce the draft at all hazards, '63. Union victory at Grand Gulf, 
'64. 

18. — Confederate victory at Blackburn's Ford, Va., '61. Action at Mem- 
phis, Mo., '62. Gillmore's assault on Fort Wagner defeated, '63. Crook defeated 
Early at Snicker's Gap ; Union victory at Peach Tree Creek ; call for 500,000 
men, '64. 

19. — Banks superseded Patterson in command on the Potomac, '61. Battle 
at Memphis, Tenn., '62. Battle of Buffington Island, O., 63. 

20. — Confederate congress met in Richmond, '61. Battle before Atlanta, '64. 

21. — Battle of Bull Run — confederate victorj% '61. 

22. — McClellan put in command of the army of the Potomac, '61. Hood's 
assault ofl Sherman at Atlanta defeated ; Louisiana state convention adopted 
constitution abolishing slavery ; Gen. McPherson shot in Hood's first sortie 
from Atlanta, '64. 

23. — Battle of Manassas Gap, '63. Gen. Averill defeated at Winchester, 
Va., '64. 

24. — Skirmish with Morgan at Washington, O., '63. 

25. — Lincoln's proclamation of the confiscation act, '62. 

26. — Halleck superseded McClellan, '62. Morgan and all his men captured 
near New Lisbon, O., '63. Gen. McCook defeated by confederates on the 
Macon and Western railroad, '64. 

27. — Confederate victory at Richmond, Ky., '63. July 27 and 28, battles at 
Deep Bottom, New Market, and Malvern Hill, Va., '64. 

28. — Union victory at Moore's Mills, Mo., '62. Second sortie from Atlanta, 
•64. 

29, — Guerillas defeated at Mount Sterling, Ky., '62. 

30. — Action at Paris, Ky., '62. Lincoln issued an order for retaliation of 
barbarous treatment, '63. Mine explosion before Petersburg, Va. ; Union 
defeat; Chambersburg burned, '64. 

31. — Lee and Meade again on the Rappahannock, '63. 



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AUGUST. 

1, — McClellan reorganized the army, '61. Action at Newark, Mo., '62. 
Union cavalry victory at Kelly's Ford, '63. Bradley, Johnson, and McCausland 
defeated at Cumberland, losing part of their plunder from Virginia, '64. 

2. — Skirmish at Ozark, Mo., '62. Col. Stout captured by McCausland and 
Johnson, '64. 

3. — Gen. Foster's reconnoissance on the James River, '63. 

4. — Confederate ram Arkansas destroyed; Secretary Stanton ordered draft 
of 300,000 men, '62. McCausland and Johnson defeated at New Creek; 
Jefferson Davis's sugar-mill at Manitee totally destroyed, '64. 

5, — Union victory at Athens, Mo., '61. Gen. McCook murdered while 
wounded; battle of Baton Rouge; battle of Malvern Hill, '62. Aug. 5 to 23, 
Farragut's great victory in Mobile Bay, '64. 

a. — Hooker abandoned Malvern Hill; battles of Tazewell, Tenn., and Kirks- 
ville, Mo., '62. Sherman's unsuccessful assault on Atlanta, '64. 

7. — Confederates destroyed Hampton, Va. , '61. Confederates advanced 
across the Rapidan ; battle of Trenton, Tenn., '62. Sheridan took command of 
the middle military division ; battle of Moorefield, Va. ; McCausland and Johnson 
defeated by Averill, '64. 

8. — Habeas corpus suspended ; orders issued to arrest those who discourage 
enlistments; no passports to be issued, '62. Fort Gaines, in Mobile Bay, sur- 
rendered ; confederates withdrew from the Maryland side of the Potomac, '64. 

9. — Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va. , '62. Butler began Dutch Gap Canal, '64. 

10. — Battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo.; Gen. Lyon killed, '61. Battle of 
Nueces River, Tex., '62. Sherman bombarded Atlanta, '64. 

11. — Battle of Independence, Mo., '62. Battle of Sulphur Springs Bridge, 
Va.,'64. 

12. — Battle of Gallatin, Tenn., Aug. 12 and 13, '62. 'Toombs exposed the 
bankruptcy of the confederacy, '63. Northern New York threatened by an 
invasion from Canada, '64. 

13. — Steamboat collision on the Potomac ; 80 soldiers killed, '62. Con- 
federate cavalry captured five Union steamers with cattle at Shawneetown, '64. 

14. — Fremont declared martial law in Missouri, '61. Union victory at 
Strawberry Plains, battle from Aug. 14 to 18, '64. 

15. — Jefferson Davis ordered Northern men to leave the South within forty 
days, '61. Gen. Steadman drove the confederates from Dalton, '64. 

16. — Lincoln proclaimed non-intercourse with the confederacy; passport 
system established, '61. Battle of Lone Jack, Mo. ; Cols. Corcoran and Wilcox 
reached Fortress Monroe from Richmond prison, '62. Battle of Deep Run, '64. 

17. — Pope's retreat begun, '62. Union bombardment of Sumter begun, '63. 

18. — Union raid in North Carolina, '63. Battle of Six Mile Station on 
Weldon railroad, N.C., "64. 

It). — Union raid on Grenada, Miss., '63. Confederate victory at Six Mile 
Station ; Mosby massacred the wounded and prisoners at Snicker's Gap, Va., '64. 




16 CALENDAB OF THE CIVIL WAR. 

20. — Quantrell, the guerilla, sacked and burned Lawrence, Kan., and 
murdered citizens, '63. 

21. — Confederate attempt to cross the Eappahannock, '62. Rosecrans 
attacked Chattanooga, '63. Confederate attack on the Weldon railroad repulsed ; 
battle of Summit Point, Va. ; Forrest took Memphis and was driven out, '64. 
Trial of Wirz, the Andersonville jailer, '65. 

22. — Reception to Col. Corcoran in New York, '62. Gen. Jeff C. Thompson 
and staff captured, '63. Union victory at Canton, Ky. ; Johnson, the confederate 
commander, killed, '64. 

23. — Battle of Big Hill, Ky. Fight between Pope and the confederates, '62. 
Charleston shelled at nearly six miles distance, '63. Fort Morgan surrendered, 
'64. 

24. — Cavalry skirmishes near Fredericksburg and Fairfax, '63. Gens. 
Heron and Lee took Clinton, Miss. ; actions at Bermuda Hundred, Va. (24 and 
25), and (24-27) at Halltown, Va., '64. 

25. — Confederate attack on Donelson, '62. Battle of Reams's Station — 
Hancock lost heavily; battle of Smithfield, Va., '64. 

2G. — Union expedition sailed for Fort Hatteras, N.C., '61. Confederates 
took Manassas Junction, '62. Battle of Rocky Gap, Va., '63. Kilpatrick's raid 
on the Macon railroad, '64. 

27. — Battle of Bull Run Bridge, Va. ; battle of Kettle Run, Va., '62. John 
B. Floyd died, '63. 

28. — Bombardment and capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark, '61. Second 
battle of Manassas, '62. Early driven through Smithfield, '64. 

29. — Battle at Groveton and Gainsville, Va. ; battle at Manchester, Tenn., 
'62. McClellan nominated for president and Pendleton for vice-president, '64. 

30. — Second battle of Bull Run, confederate victory ; battles of Bolivar, 
Tenn., and of Richmond, Ky., '62. Sherman put his whole army between 
Atlanta and Hood at Jonesboro', '64. 

31. — Fort Smith, Ark., captured by Gen. Blunt, '63. Battle of Jonesboro', 
Ga., Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, '64. 



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SEPTEMBER. 

1, — Battle of Chantilly, Va. ; Gens. Kearney and Stevens killed; Burnside 
evacuated Fredericksburg ; battle of Britton's Lane, Teun., '62. Hood evacu- 
ated Atlanta, '64. Removal of all restrictions on Southern ports, '65. 

2. — McClellan assigned to command the defences of Washington, '62. Con- 
federates before Petersburg cheered McClellan's nomination ; Atlanta captured 
by Sherman, '64. 

3. — Union cavalry victory near Murf reesboro' ; Union victories at Darkes- 
ville and Perryville, Va., '64. 

4. — Oreto ran the blockade into Mobile, '62. Burnside occupied Knoxville, 
'63. Morgan was routed and killed by Gen. Gillam at Greenville, Tenn., '64. 

5. — Confederates invaded Maryland, '62. Women's bread riot in Mobile, '63. 
6. — First capture by the Alabama (the whaler Ocmulgee ) ; battle of 

Washington, N.C., '62. Morris Island evacuated by the confederates, '63. 
Battle of Matamoros, '64. 

7. — Gen. Pope relieved of command of the army of Virginia, '62. Union 
troops captured Fort Wagner, S.C., '63. Confederate Gen. Dibbles surprised 
at Ready ville, '64. 

8. — Gen. Lee's proclamation to Maryland, '62. Confederate Col. Jessie and 
100 men captured near Ghent, Ky., '64. 

9. — Confederates evacuated Fredericksburg, '62. Cumberland Gap captured 
by Gen. Shackleford, '63. Sherman concentrated near Atlanta, '64. 

10. — Rosecrans defeated Floyd at Carnifex Ferry, Va., '61. Levy en masse 
in Pennsylvania to repel invasion, '62. Grant advanced his permanent line half 
a mile, '64. 

11. — Hagerstown, Md., occupied by confederates, '62. Little Rock, Ark., 
occupied by Union troops, '63. 

12. — Hooker occupied Frederick City, Md., '62. Failure of the Sabine Pass 
expedition, '63. 

. 13. —Fight at Middleton, Md., '62. Harper's Ferry battle, Sept. 12 to 15, '62. 

14. — Battle of South Mountain, Va. ; battle of Mumfordsville, Ky., Sept. 
14 to 16, '62. Price and 10,000 men crossed the White River for Missouri, '64. 
Chiefs of the rebel Indians renounced the confederacy, '65. 

15. — Harper's Ferry surrendered to the confederates; attempt to blockade 
tlie Ohio River, '62. Lincoln suspended the habeas corpus act, '63. 

16. — Skirmishes at Chattanooga, '63. Thirteenth Pennsylvania regiment 
and 2,500 cattle captured at Sycamore church; action (16th-18th) at Fort Gib- 
son, I.T., '64. 

17. — Battle of Antietam; Union troops evacuated Cumberland Gap, '62. 

18. — Maryland legislature closed by the provost-marshal, and all the con- 
federate sympathizers sent to Fort McHenry, '61. Confederates evacuated 
Sharpsburg and recrossed the Potomac, '62. Gen. Averill drove the confederates 
out of IMartinsburg, '64. 



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19. — Battle of luka, Miss.; confederates evacuated Harper's Ferry, '62. 
Beginning of the battle of Chickamauga, '63. Battle of Winchester ; Sheridan 
sent Early "whirling up the valley:" battle at Powder Mill, or Little Rock 
River, '64. 

20. — Confederate Gen. Price captured Col. Mulligan at Lexington, Mo., '6L 
Battle of Blackburn's Ford, Va., '62. Confederate victory at Chickamauga, '63. 
Forrest captured Athens, Ala., '64. 

21. — John C. Breckenridge joined the confederacy; engagement at Osceola, 
Mo., '61. Rosecrans retreated from Chickamauga to Chattanooga, '68. 

22, — Lincoln's emancipation proclamation issued, '62. Sheridan's victory at 
Fisher's Hill, '64. 

23. — Meade's army reached the Rapidan, '63. Price occupied Bloomfield, 
Mo., '64. 

24. — Count de Paris and the Due de Chartres became aides to McClellan ; 
great review at Washington, '61. Convention of loyal governors at Altoona, 
Pa., '62. 

25. — Mosby broke the railroad near Fairfax, '63. 

2(>. — Federal fast day, '61. Early retreated to Brown's Gap in the Blue 
Ridge ; battle of Pilot Knob, Mo. , '64. 

27. — Fremont opened his campaign, '61. Augusta, Ky., destroyed by the 
confederates, '62. Three Union companies of 39th Missouri regiment at Cen- 
tralia massacred by Price, '64. 

28. — Confederate attack on Burnside near Knoxville repulsed, '63. Battle 
of New Market Heights ; night attack on Hancock's front on Jerusalem plank- 
road repulsed, '64. 

29. — Gen. Davis shot Gen. Nelson at Cincinnati ; Union defeat above Port 
Hudson, '63. 

30. — Battle of Newtonia, Mo., '62. Confederate cavalry defeated at Harri- 
son's Landing, Tenn., '63. Renewed fighting at New Market Heights, con- 
federate victory; action at Poplar Springs church, Va., '64. 



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OCTOBER. 

1. — Lincoln visited McClellan's army and urged movement across the Poto- 
mac; battle of Shepardstown, Va. ; Buell's army left Louisville, '62. Battle 
of Anderson's Gap, Tenn., '63. 

2. — Union victory at Anderson's Cross Roads, Ky., '63. Battle of Saltville, 
Va., '64. 

3. — Union victory at Greenbrier, Va., '61. Battle of Corinth; Gen. Mor- 
gan retreated from Cumberland Gap, '62. Sherman crossed the Chattahoochee 
with 15 days' rations, '64. 

4. — Battle of Buffalo Hill, Ky., '61. Confederates defeated at Corinth, '62. 
Pour steamers burned at St. Louis by fire-bugs, '63. 

5. — Gen. Robert Anderson in command in Kentucky, '61. Battle of Meta- 
mora. Miss., Union troops occupied Galveston, '62. Confederates bombarded 
Chattanooga from Lookout Mountain, '63. Hood captured the garrisons of Big 
Shanty and Ackworth ; battle of Allatoona, Ga. ; Sheridan's victory at Tom's 
Brook, '64. 

6. — McClellan ordered to cross the Potomac and to give battle, '62. Action 
at Baxter Springs, Ark., '63. Hood's attack on Allatoona repulsed, '64. 

7. — Battle of La Vergne, Tenn., '62. Confederate steamers destroyed on 
the Red River, '63. Battle of Darleytown Road and New Market Heights ; 
pirate Florida captured at BahiaBay, by U.S. steamer Wachusett, and sunk, '64. 

8. — Battle of Perryville, Ky., '62. Union victories near Farmingham, Ky., 
and Salem, Miss., '63. Union victory at Woodville, '64. 

9. — Union forces advanced beyond the Potomac; action at Santa Rosa, 
Fla., '61. Battle of Lawrenceburg, Ky., '62. Defeat of confederate operations 
against Rosecrans, '63. Battle of Boonesville, Mo., 9th to 11th; action at 
Strasburg, Va., '64. 

10. — Battle of Harrodsburg, Ky. ; Stuart's cavalry raid in Maryland and 
Pennsylvania, '62. Battle of Blue Springs, Tenn., '63. 

11. — Steamer NashviUe escaped from Charleston, '61. Confederate Gen. 
Buford and 1,200 cavalry crossed the Cumberland River at Harpeth Shoals, '64. 

12. — Stuart's cavalry recrossed the Potomac, '62. Battle of Ingham's 
Mills, Miss.; Mead withdrew to the north bank of the Rappahannock; battle 
of Merrill's Crossing, Mo., '63. Drawn battle of three hours at Strasburg, be- 
tween Longstreet and Sheridan, '64. Proclamation ending martial law in Ken- 
tucky, '65. 

13. — Gen. Bragg evacuated Camp Dick Robinson, '62. Battle of Catlett's 
Station, '63. 

14. — Fight at Bristow Station, '63. 

15. — Three steamers from New York pursued the Nashville ; battle of 
Lime Creek, Mo., '61. Draft in Boston and Baltimore, '62. Battle at McLean's 
Ford, Va., '63. Action at Glasgow, Mo., '64. 

16. — Confederate raid on Brownsville, Miss., '63. 



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17. —Battle of Ironton, Mo., 17th to 21st, '61. Lincoln called for 300,000 
men, '63. Price occupied Lexington, Mo., '64:. 

18. — Morgan occupied Lexington, Ky., '62. Maj.-Gen. Birney died at 
Philadelphia, '64. 

19. — Fight near Nashville, '62. Lee recrossed the Rappahannock and 
marched south, '63. Battle of Cedar Creek ; Sheridan's arrival from Winchester 
(Hi miles away) turned defeat to victory, '64. 

20. — Grant succeeded Rosecrans, '63. Battle of Philadelphia, Tenn., '63. 
Early retreated by night to Mount Jackson, '64. 

21, — Battle of Ball's Bluff; Gen. Baker killed; Gen. Zollicoffer defeated 
at Wild Cat, Ky. ; Union victory at Fredericktown, '61. Confederates left 
West Virginia, '62. Battle of Cherokee Station, Ala., '63. Battle of the Little 
Blue, Mo., '64. 

22. — Confederate salt-works in Florida destroyed, '62. Skirmishes at Co- 
lumbia and lOngston Spring, Tenn., '63. 

23. — Union victory at Maysville, Ark.; battle of Pocotaligo, S.C., '62. 
Fight at Beverley Ford on the Rappahannock, '63. Battle of Independence, Mo., 
'64. 

24. — Rosecrans succeeded Buell over the army of Kentucky, '62. 

25. — Major Zagonyi's charge at Springfield, Mo., '61. Fight near Manassas, 
'62. Battle of Pine Bluff, Ark., '63. Price defeated with loss of camp equipage 
at Fort Scott road, '64. 

26. — Battle of Romney, W. Va., '61. McClellan's advance begun, '62. Grant 
moved on Lookout Mountain, '63. Pleasonton defeated Price at Mine Creek; 
Marmaduke and Cabell captured, '64. 

27.— Battle of Labadiesville, La., '62. Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn., '63. 
Hooker defeated the confederates at Brown's Ferry, '63. Grant's attack on the 
South side railroad failed; battle of Hatcher's Run, Va. ; battle of Fair Oaks, 
Va., Oct. 27 and 28, '64. 

28. — Capture of Lookout Mountain by Grant ; afterward abandoned and 
occupied by the confederates, '63. Confederate ram Albemarle destroyed by a 
torpedo boat on the Roanoke River, 64. 

29. — Great naval expedition under Dupont from Fortress Monroe, '61. 
Rhoddy's attack on Col. Morgan's colored troops at Decatur, Ala., repulsed, '64. 

30. — Gen. Mitchell died at Port Royal, '62. Heavy bombardment of 
Charleston, '63. 

31. — Skirmish at Maysville, Ky. Bank's expedition landed at Brazos 
Island, '62. 



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NOVEMBER. 

1. — Gen. Winfleld Scott resigned as commander-in-chief, and General 
McClellan succeeded him, '61. 

2. — Gen. Fremont removed ; steamer Bermuda ran the Savannah bloclcade, 
'61. Gen. Foster's expedition left Newbern, '62. Union victory at Roan Springs, 
Tenn. ; boat attack on Sumter failed, 'G3. National thanksgiving for peace, '65. 

3. — Union rising in East Tennessee, '61 ; battle at Grand Coteau, La. ; actions 
at Columbia and Colliersville, Tenn., '63. Ram Albemarle destroyed, '64. 

4. — Grant's army occupied Lagrange, Miss. ; Georgia salt-works destroyed, 
'62. Banks's expedition occupied Brownsville, '63. 

5. — Order issued for the removal of McClellan; battle of Nashville, Tenn., 
'62. Confederates shelled Chattanooga, '63. Butler took command of troops in 
New York City, '64. 

G. — Lincoln elected, '61. McClellan's advance occupied Warrenton, Va. ; 
battle of Garrettsburg, Ky., '62. Guerillas plundered Blandville, Ky. ; battle 
of Droop Mountain, Va. , '63. Confederate ram Shenandoah surrendered in 
the Mersey to an English man-of-war, '65. 

7. — Brig.-Gen. Grant commanded at battle of Belmont, Mo., '61. McClellan 
removed and Burnside appointed ; battle of Marianna, Ark. ; negro troops en- 
gaged at Port Royal, '62. Meade's army engaged the confederates at Kelly's 
Ford and Rapidan Station, '63. 

8. — Mason and Slidell taken, '61. Battle of Hudsonville, Miss., '62. Lin- 
coln and Johnson elected, '64. McClellan resigned commission ; Sheridan made 
major-general of regular army, "64. 

9. — Butler's sequestration order issued, '62. Meade in line of battle, '63. 
Sherman issued marching order for advance through Georgia, '64. 

10. — Senator Chestnut of South Carolina resigned; bill in the South Car- 
olina legislature for 10,000 volunteers, '60. Union demonstration in Memphis, 
'62. Confederates concentrated on the south bank of the Rapidan, '63. Night 
fighting before Richmond, '64. Execution of Captain Wirz, '65. 

11. — Senator Hammond of South Carolina resigned, '60. Gen. Halleck in 
command of the "Western department, '61. Charleston and Sumter shelled reg- 
ularly, '63. 

12. — Union meeting in Arkansas, '63. About 10,000 prisoners exchanged 
near Fort Pulaski ; Atlanta evacuated by the confederates, '64. 

13. — Holly Springs, Miss., occupied by Union troops, '62. Confederates 
across the Potomac at Edward's Ferry, '63. Gen. Gillam defeated with heavy 
loss at Bull's Gap, '64. 

14. — Gen. Stahel's forces passed Snicker's Gap, '62. Longstreet forced 
Burnside back at Knoxville ; battle of Huff's Ferry, Tenn., '63. 

15. — Great public meeting at Mobile declared the causes of secession, '60. 
Frigate San Jacinto brought Mason and Slidell, taken from the English steamer 
Trent, to Fortress Monroe, '61. Action at Fayetteville, Va , '62. 



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16. — Order for Sabbath observance issued, 'G2. Battle of Campbell's Sta- 
tion, Tenn. ; Sherman's corps joined Thomas at Chattanooga, '63. Sherman left 
Atlanta on his march to the sea, '64. 

17. — Artillery fight near Fredericksburg, '62. Siege of Knoxville, Tenn., 
begun; battle of Mustang Island, Tex., '63. Gen. Slocum burned the railroad 
station at Locust Circle, '64. 

18. — Georgia voted -SI, 000, 000 for arming the State; Maj. Anderson 
ordered to Fort Moultrie, '60. Burnside advanced opposite Fredericksburg, '62. 
Slocum cut the Macon railroad ; the Georgia legislature fled from Milledge- 
ville, '64. 

19. — Executive session of the Louisiana legislature ordered, '60. Confed- 
erate congress met, '61. Gettysburg cemetery dedicated, '63. Madison 
captured and burned by Sherman, '64. 

20. — Bank suspensions in Richmond, Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, 
Trenton, and the South, '60. Missouri confederate legislature passed secession 
ordinance, "'6L Gen. Howard captured Milledgeville, '64. 

21. — Surrender of Fredericksburg demanded, '62. Union victory at Liberty, 
'64. Sherman defeated Wheeler's cavalry at Gordon, '64. 

22. — -Order issued for the release of all State prisoners, '62. Part of 
Knoxville burned, '63. Action at Griswoldville, Ga., '64. 

23. — Action at Fort Pickens, Fla. , '61. Reconnoissance in force by Thomas 
at Chattanooga, '63. 

24. — Mason and Slidell put in Fort Warren, '61. Capture of Lookout 
Mountain ; Hooker's fight above the clouds, '63. Potomac, James, and Valley 
armies celebrated Thanksgiving with delicacies from the North, '64. 

25. — Raid on Pooleville, Md. ; Confederates attacked Newbern, '62. Cap- 
ture of Missionary Ridge, '63. Confederate attempt to burn New York, '64. 

26. — Lincoln visited Burnside; Sherman left Memphis, '62. Meade 
crossed the Rapidan, '63. Action at Sylvan Grove (26th-29th), and Browne's 
Cross Roads, Va. Beauregard's siege of Decatur repulsed, Nov. 26 to 29, '64. 

27. — Fighting between Meade and Lee, near Mine Run, Va. ; battle of Ring- 
gold and Taylor's Ridge, Ga. ; steamer Greyhound burned on the James 
River, '64. 

28. — Burnside visited Washington ; battle of Cone Hill, Ark. ; confederate 
cavalry crossed the Rappahannock, '62. Morgan and six oflicers escaped from 
the Ohio penitentiary, '63. 

29. — Mississippi sent commissioners to the other Southern States, '60. 
Union victory at Frankfort, W. Va., '62. Longstreet's attack on Knoxville 
repulsed, '63. Action (29th, 30th) at Spring Hill, Tenn., '64. 

30. — Jefferson Davis elected president of the confederacy for six years, '61. 
Battle of Franklin ; Hood repulsed with heavy loss ; Attorney-General Bates 
resigned; Roger A. Pryor captured; battle of Grahamsville, S.C. ; battle of 
Honey Hill, S.C, '64. 



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DECEMBER. 

1. — Great secession meeting at Memphis, '60. Meade recrossed the Rapidan, 
'G3. Banks resumed command of the department of the Gulf, '64. 

2. — Confederates in Tennessee and Mississippi retreated before Grant, Dec. 
1 to 3, '62. Confederate Gen. Hardee superseded Bragg in Georgia ; battle of 
Walker's Ford, W. Va., '63. 

3, — Gen. Geary occupied Winchester, Va., '62. Union foray toward Canton, 
Miss., '63. 

4, — John C. Breckenridge unanimoush' expelled from the U. S. senate, '61. 
Longstreet abandoned the siege of Knoxville, '63. 

5, — Confederate victory at Coffeeville, Miss., '62. Confederate attack on 
Murfreesboro' blockhouses repulsed, '64. 

6. — Skirmish near Lebanon, Tenn., '62. Ex-secretary Chase appointed 
justice of the supreme court ; capture of Pocotaligo bridge, S.C. ; action (6th-9th) 

at Deveaux's Neck, S.C, '64. 

7. — Gen. Butler's expedition at Port Royal, '61. Union victory at Prairie 
Grove, Ark., '62. Electoral colleges met; Forrest routed by Rousseau near 
Murfreesboro, '64. 

8. — Lincoln issued amnesty proclamation, '63. Confederates established a 
battery on the Cumberland River; action at Hatcher's Run, Va. , '64. 

9. — Congress authorized the exchange of prisoners ; Confederate con- 
gress admitted Kentucky to the confederacy, '61. Direct communication 
established with Sherman near Savannah, '64. 

10. — Howell Cobb, secretary of the treasury, resigned ; Senator Clay of 
Alabama resigned ; Louisiana legislature appropriated $500,000, '60. Battle of 
Union gunboats and confederate batteries at Port Royal, Va. , "62. Gunboat 
Otsego sunk by confederate torpedo on the Roanoke River, '64. 

11. — Bombardment of Fredericksburg, '62. Battles of Bean Station and 
Morristown, Tenn. (10th-14th), '63. 

12. — Burnside occupied Fredericksburg, '62. Col. Morgan was captiired at 
Kingston, Tenn., '64. 

13. — First military execution; Deserter Johnson shot; engagement at 
Buffalo Mountain, W. Va., '61. Confederate victory at Fredericksburg, '62. 
Gen. Hazen captured Fort McAllister, '64. 

14. — Lewis Cass, secretary of state, resigned, '60. Union victory near 
Kingston, N.C., '62. Union victory at Bean Station, Va., '63. Gen. Dix 
ordered operations against the confederates on the Canadian frontier, '64. 

lo. — Retreat of Burnside ; the advance of Banks's expedition arrived at New 
Orleans, '62. Victory of Gen. Thomas near Nashville; raid of Stoneman in 
southwest Virginia; Forrest defeated near Murfreesboro', '64. 

16. — Burnside retreated across the Rappahannock; Banks put in com- 
mand of the department of the Gulf, '62. Hood routed near Nashville, '64. 

17. — Union victory at Mumfordville, Ky., '61. Baton Rouge occupied by 



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Union troops, '62. Resolutions offered in the confederate house to send peace 
commissioners to Washington, '64. 

18. — Battle of Milford, Mo., '61. Confederates seized Lexington, Ky. ; 
Quantrell defeated by Phillips's Indian brigade near Fort Gibson, '62. Secretary 
Seward required all persons coming to the United States, except immigrants, 
to have passports, '64. 

lO. — End, at Oxford, Miss., of successful six days' raid of Col. Dickey's 
scouting party, '62. Battle of Barren Forls, Ind. Territory ; confederates 
repulsed Standthwaite's attack on Fort Gibson, Ark., '63. Draft and call for 
300,000 men, '64. 

20. — South Carolina seceded, '60. Battle at Drainesville, Va., '61. Gen. 
Foster returned to Newbern after a successful expedition; Holly Springs, 
Miss., sacked by confederates; Sherman's army embarked at Memphis for 
Vicksburg, '62. Hardee evacuated Savannah; navy yard burned, and salt-works 
blown up, 64. 

31. — Fight on "Wolf River, Miss., '61. Sherman occupied Savannah, '64. 

22. — Confederate success in Isle of Wight Court-House (Va.) ; skirmish, '62. 
Gen. Corcoran killed by fall from his horse, '63. 

23. — Union troops occupied Winchester, Va., '62. Union raid on Luray, '63. 
Fight near Gordonsville, Va., '64. 

24. — Ten miles of railroad destroyed west of Vicksburg, '62. Choctaw 
Indians deserted the confederacy, '63. Porter's fleet attacked Fort Fisher, '64. 

2o. — Skirmish at Bacon Creek, Ky., '62. British bark Circassian seized in 
the North River by a U. S. marshal, '()3. Porter's attack on Fort Fisher repulsed, 
'64. 

26. — Maj. Anderson and 80 men went to Fort Sumter, '60. Sherman dis- 
embarked at Yazoo, '62. The ironclad Dictator launched at New York, '63. 

27. — Mason and Slidell were surrendered to the British minister, '61. Sher- 
man marched on Vicksburg; action at Dumfries, Va., '62. 

28. — South Carolina seized the U. S. custom-house, post-office, and arsenal, 
'60. Action at Mt. Zion, Mo., '61. Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Vicksburg ; 
Gen. Blunt captured Van Buren, Ark. ; battle of Elk Fork, Tenn., '62. Action 
at Charleston, Tenn., '63. Reconstruction meeting at Savannah, '64. 

29. — J. B. Floyd, secretary of war, resigned, '60. Sherman repulsed at 
Vicksburg with heavy loss, '62. 

30. — Sherman raised the siege of Vicksburg; battles of Jefferson and of 
Parker's Cross Roads, Tenn. ; Monitor foundered off Hatteras, '62. Great 
naval expedition left New Orleans, '63. 

31. — Battle of Stone River, or Murfreesboro', begun ; McClernand succeeded 
Sherman before Vicksburg, '62. Large quantity of confederate money seized 
in New York, '63. 



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